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I remember getting catalogs in the mail with a huge list of VBX controls and all the amazing things it could add to your programs. It was a pretty amazing time
by protomyth 7y ago
I remember getting catalogs in the mail with a huge list of VBX controls and all the amazing things it could add to your programs. It was a pretty amazing time.
- pjmlp 7y agoYou can still get them https://www.devexpress.com/ https://www.devexpress.com/ https://www.grapecity.com/componentone-studio https://www.grapecity.com/componentone-studio https://www.componentsource.com/ https://www.componentsource.com/ https://www.tmssoftware.com/site/tmspack.asp https://www.tmssoftware.com/site/tmspack.asp It is just UNIX world is still busy replicating text terminals and daemons.
- anthk 7y ago>It is just UNIX world is still busy replicating text terminals and daemons. We got TCL/Tk in the 90's and right now I am doing some TCL code with the help of expect and some TK UI. Those replicating terminal and daemons forever and ever are just CADT Linux users who are trying to reimplement Unix poorly. For everything else, TCL C bindings rock. Also, tcllib is pretty nice feature wise, too. For everyting else, as a RAD, TCL + SQLite, which is superior to Access on the DB field. BTW, SQLite was born from a TCL developer, in TCL. Guess what's still used today, and which language, don't. Not even Access with VBA can match SQLite3's implementation. Simplicity won in the end. The baroque interface of MS IDE's always gave a me a sense of innecesary bloat.
- pjmlp 7y agoMy first startup was a Tcl shop, doing an AOLServer clone. It wasn't a match for anything related to GUI RAD tools. In fact it teached me to never use a programming language without either JIT or AOT as part of their default toolchain. And the Tk L&F back in 2000 would make any UI/UX just cry.